id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-281406-d7g0pbj4 Chen, Yifei Epidemiological analysis of the early 38 fatalities in Hubei, China, of the coronavirus disease 2019 2020-04-24 .txt text/plain 4388 220 58 BACKGROUND: Since the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hubei province of China by the end of 2019, it has burned its way across the globe, resulting in a still fast-growing death toll that far exceeded those from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in less than two months. The death cases were described from four aspects (gender and age characteristics, underlying diseases, the time course of death, symptoms at the incipience of illness and hospital admission). As there is a paucity of evidence on which population is more likely to progress into severe conditions among COVID-19 cases, here, we poured over the first batch of 38 death cases whose information were made public by Health Commission of Hubei province as of 24 January 2020, one day into city lockdown in Wuhan, with the purpose to add a new facet to current evidence. ./cache/cord-281406-d7g0pbj4.txt ./txt/cord-281406-d7g0pbj4.txt